What a wonderful historical collection that you can use in your classroom or for personal enjoyment. Just make sure to follow fair use and respect copyright as you use these pictures in your curriculum.

For FREE pictures you and your students can use check out this week's Friday Five (plus 2 bonus sites)

(Photo collections you and your students can use more freely)

Please do not allow students to sign up for an account on these sites and use these sites only while supervising students. Most of these sites allow you to save low resolution copies of these for use in noncommercial projects such as school projects. Teach your students how to give photocredit for every photo they use.

Although our school does use a filter to reduce the chances of students stumbling across inappropriate images, filters are not foolproof and no substitute for supervision and educating students on how to respond when they come across pictures that make them uncomfortable. The world outside of school is “not” filtered and our students need us to prepare them to be digital citizen in a networked connected digital world.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. Creative Commons is an alternative to copyright that encourages the photos to be used for creative pursuits.

FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! Use the advanced search to find only Creative Commons Image; add them to a 'tray' and download them all at once as a photoset. You can even find related and more relevant images.